104 BUREAU OF AMERICAN ETHNOLOGY [BULL. 75 
No. 38. Woman’s Dance Song (c) (Catalogue No. 744) 
Recorded by StncER No. 6 
VoIcE ae 80 
Drum e= 80 
Drum-rhythm similar to No. 36 
Ss Gal state, > ann 
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Sat pS ee 
Analysis.—This song contains only the tones of the minor triad 
and seventh. The only other Ute song containing this tone material 
is No. 71. 
Concerning this characteristic among Chippewa songs, see Bulletin 
45, page 142, and Bulletin 53, page 258; among the Sioux songs, see 
Bulletin 61, pages 184,337. This chord has been found in the music of 
the American Negro ™ and was noted by Prof. J. C. Fillmore in songs 
of the Nass River Indians living in British Columbia; also among 
the songs of the Dahomy collected by Prof. Fillmore at the World’s 
Columbian Exposition in Chicago, 1892. 
In the songs analyzed by the present writer this chord appears in 
two forms: (1) In songs of minor tonality it constitutes the tonic 
chord with seventh added, and (2) in songs of major tonality it 
constitutes the submediant chord with the dominant of the key 
added as its highest tone. It will be noted that in the first form 
the tonic triad appears as the lower and in the second form as the 
upper portion of the chord. The second is the more frequent form, 
as shown by the fact that 11 Chippewa songs are characterized by 
this chord and only three are minor in tonality. (See song No. 30.) 
In the song under analysis the tonic triad (G sharp, B—D sharp) 
forms the framework of the melody, the seventh being less prominent 
and occurring only twice. The rhythmic unit is short and its repe- 
titions comprise all the song except the closing measures. Four 
renditions were recorded and show no differences except that in one 
rendition the opening phrase, before the repeated portion, was 
omitted. Major and minor thirds constitute 68 per cent of the 
progressions. 
18 See paper by H. E. Krehbiel, read before the Folklore Congress, July, 1894. 
